"Success covers a multitude of blunders...." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.”

“Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals”

“I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.”

“We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.”

“Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving”

“...an imperfect plan implemented immediately and violently will always succeed better than a perfect plan.”

“One who fears failure limits his activities.”

“I ... ran for Legislature [in 1832] ... and was beaten-the only time I have been beaten by the people.”

“To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.”